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November is Native American Heritage Month, and the Maze Books November pick is The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich! Because the last Thursday of the month falls on Thanksgiving, we will be meeting on Tuesday, November 25th at 6:30pm. Copies of the book are available in-store and online via our bookshop.org affiliate. About the Book
“Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman” (Goodreads)
About the Author
“Karen Louise Erdrich is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. Her father is German American, and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance,” (Goodreads)
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